If we can
exist only in the constant alternation of perspective (sensory, psychic,
mental) and this has to apply analogously to any place of effect (just worked,
just different), how then does stability, something permanent, emerge?
Of course
by repeating the alternation: of the
thought, the point of view, the mutual confirmation, the effect. The
alternation can be exactly repeated, however, only for an infinitely short
moment; then it must reach beyond the repetition so as not to cancel itself out.
That is, it changes as a whole and
remains open. For stabilization an approximate
repetition is sufficient, though. So for a long time we believe almost the same
thing, for example.
Why, again,
do we repeat ourselves at all?
Because otherwise everything would disappear immediately, exist only for an
infinitely short moment. But if something has gained minimal stability and thus
forms a whole, it can have a further stabilizing
effect, since a change with it as such
now contains more repetition as well: Every alternation contains its sides, thereby "bringing" something of each
side to the other. If one of them is relatively stable, the other is
"addressed" again and again in a similar way and thus
"seduced" to permanence. Or it loses connection eventually.
In the
so-called "matter" it doesn't happen otherwise: It stabilizes itself
this way in molecular interactions thus forming mountains, table and climate. Since
it is nothing but small and large alternations of the place of effect, the
entire alternation can be tracked in principle into the human brain and its
mind - and vice versa from the mind into its brain into its environment. We
find manifold intermediate stabilization of an emotional-mental, mechanical,
electromagnetic, other, and unknown kind, all contributing to our relatively
stable world, but never self-contained.
However,
the wholeness of an alternation is, as described, a consciousness structure
(see Consciousness I and Consciousness II). Consequently, we are
dealing with forms of consciousness everywhere
- with more or less Freedom of Choice (see there as well as Subconscious)
and an increasingly unknown depth (see Awareness I and Awareness II).
We live in a world of choosing consciousness or awareness. So constancy is wanted.
For
example, we humans create juridical laws; animals, plants and bacteria form
their own social rules; and the inter-actions of "matter" also fit
into regularities, so-called "laws of nature." But the relative
openness of any alternation system implies that it can change at any time with
a certain degree of probability. Therefore, even "laws of nature"
must be relative in some way.
Their
stability in experimenting - as that of our lifeworld - is based on relatively
closed "collective" reciprocal relationships. They mean the extensive
exclusion of alternative paths of alternation and favor mutual
"dependencies." What we believe we seek and find with greater
probability, and what we find most often we believe. Again and again we change
to there, with all the others who refer us to it, and displace the seemingly
inappropriate "remainder". Ultimately, what is found and what is
believed is inseparable and possible deviations abnormal. And by that we are
even right: Our reality funnel is established.
Only of
what we cannot change despite deliberate
openness, we do not yet know why it
opposes. On the other hand, it would be strange if we had unlimited potential
with limited world knowledge - or understood our deepest intentions.
This text is an excerpt from the book
Alternating Consciousness. From Perception to Infinities and Back to Free Will
Alternating Consciousness. From Perception to Infinities and Back to Free Will
